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Polytechnique Montréal and Safran renew strategic partnership for sustainable aviation

October 29, 2025

Fifteen years after signing their first cooperation framework agreement, Polytechnique Montréal and Safran have renewed their partnership. Representatives of the two organizations met at Polytechnique today to celebrate the collaboration. ...

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A parachute from Polytechnique Montréal lands in "Nature"

October 1, 2025

A research team from the Mechanical Engineering Department at Polytechnique Montréal today published an article in the prestigious journal Nature unveiling a new parachute concept inspired by kirigami, the Japanese art of paper folding and cutting that ch ...

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Inventing 6G

Mobile antennas in the 5G range are small, which makes them easy to integrate into electronic circuits; here they are on a millimeter-wave beamformer circuit. Newer 6G antennas will be even smaller. (Photo: Mohammad Sharawi) While "5G"- aka th ...

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When the circus comes to... the lab!

Charlotte Dubost (photo : Anne-Marie Lambert-Chevrier) When Charlotte Dubost decided on a rather unconventional subject for her Master’s degree in engineering, she approached a handful of professors on both sides of the Atlantic. The result? Polytechniq ...

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Printing plastic webs to protect the cellphone screens of the future

November 3, 2020

Follow the unbreakable bouncing phone! A Polytechnique Montréal team recently demonstrated that a fabric designed using additive manufacturing absorbs up to 96% of impact energy – all without breaking. Cell Reports Physical Science journal recently publis ...

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Innovation Superclusters: shortlisted applicants from Québec announced at Polytechnique Montréal

October 11, 2017

Polytechnique Montréal recently hosted the unveiling by the Honourable Navdeep Bains, federal Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, of the two Québec-region proposals shortlisted for Canada’s Innovation Superclusters Initiative. ...

https://www.polymtl.ca/carrefour-actualite/en/news/innovation-superclusters-shortlisted-applicants-quebec-announced-polytechnique-montreal

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